Meagan Murphy is an award-winning Director/Producer with 25 years of experience in film and broadcast. During her 12 years with WGBH Educational Foundation, Meagan produced programs across a spectrum, including documentary, news and children’s programming. Her film repertoire includes Night Deposit, Fathers & Sons, and Victor’s Big Score. She is an active member of Independent Documentary Association and Women in Film & Video.

Viewers get to know nine unforgettable women, ages 32-68, who boldly bare their hearts and breasts to the camera, candidly revealing tender memories of puberty, shaming, sexual pleasure, nursing and the individual journeys they’ve made in reclaiming their breasts. The women are in turn humorous, reflective, and good-natured about their bodies and how they relate to them mentally and emotionally.

Through the power of personal narrative, the film offers a frank examination of our culture and its subjective effects on our lives, and becomes a vital injection of the radical compassion we all thirst for.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”5636″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” top_padding=”20″ bottom_padding=”20″ class=”lb-txt” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”ARE THE WOMEN IN THE BREAST ARCHIVES
BARE-BREASTED?” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23fff723″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1523988919805{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]My objective was to invoke women’s wisdom regarding their breasts, to invite it out of hiding. It was therefore important that the women felt they had nothing to hide, and that they felt connected to their natural bodies and femininity.

I believe that seeing bare-breasted women talk about their breasts’ complexity can help to demystify the body part, and create an opportunity for viewers to stop seeing the breasts as exclusively sexual. It’s important that the women in the film be seen as they are: sincere, intelligent, and dignified; our sisters, our mothers, our friends, and in many ways ourselves.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_color=”#651b58″ scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”10″ bottom_padding=”10″ overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”7031″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” top_padding=”20″ bottom_padding=”20″ class=”lb-txt” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”The Film’s Egyptian Origins” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23fff723″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1523991278489{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]The Breast Archives project came into being in Egypt, on the Nile, where I had spent a fortnight on a slowly moving riverboat, traveling from temple to temple.The Arab Spring had emptied the country, and the sites were ours and ours alone. So many of the temples I visited were dedicated to the Goddess Isis, who for thousands of years was celebrated as the Mother of Creation. Often her likeness stood 200 feet high, chiseled onto the walls of massive, sacred structures. As I stood before her towering image again and again, I couldn’t help but notice her uncovered breasts projecting and fully exposed in the desert sun. Often she was nursing her infant son, Horus. Standing before her, I felt a serene courage and a deeply loving power.

Back at home, I began to wonder: What did the earliest cultures know that we aren’t tapped into? Where are the mythic female statues of our culture? Where are the breasts? I became fascinated and committed to the idea of interviewing women about their breasts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”7018″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” top_padding=”60″ bottom_padding=”60″ class=”lb-txt home” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Use the Button Below to Download the Electronic Press Kit for the film” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:30|text_align:center|color:%23fff723|line_height:2em” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”32″][vc_column_text]